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Week 3

Week 3! This week I did not keep up with calories or macros. I weighed in at 157 Friday morning, which is the same as what I averaged last week. I only ate one tub of halo top all week (3 nights worth) instead of 2, so I'm pleased about that. It's still not the occasional treat that it should be, but cutting my intake in half is pretty damn good. Most of our meals were a meat and a veggie, which is keeping me satiated. I did not have to spend any time hungry this week. I continued my 16:8 intermittent fasting and have not had breakfast in 3 weeks. On the weekends lunch can be more like brunch and I can eat something that gives that breakfasty feel like a frittata or something. I don't miss breakfasts; when I used to eat a breakfast on work days it was a power bar or cottage cheese at around 8:00 and by 9:30 I was already starving again. Now I'm fine until I start to get hungry around 10:30 and then I try to wait until at least 11 to eat my lunch. I did snack some
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Week 2

Week 2 Lost another 3 lbs this week! Most days my carbs were 70-90g. Still feeling good. Have gotten more compliments at work; people are noticing my weight loss finally! Next week I will report back on Friday after a week of NOT counting calories or macros, just eating low carb foods and exercising.  Going full on keto last week and then learning more about paleo/primal/lowcarb this week taught me a few things. I can lose weight great on <50g carbs.  Staying under 50g of carbs is tricky but doable. Keto is not a lifelong diet change; I need to have veggies and fruits for a diet shift to be sustainable.  If I get all of my carbs from veggies it's easy to keep the carb count low. Dark chocolate is a wonderful treat. Halo top is a sometimes food.  Grain free chips are delicious but still have lots of carbs. Sunday thoughts: Friday night we went out for sushi and I ate a bit of rice along with sashimi. Then I had my halo top treat. Yesterday's 10K went GRE
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Week 1

Week 1! I'm not a patient person. I was going to wait and start the diet on Monday but I was part too excited to wait and part feeling guilty about that big burger dinner from Friday night. So I started Saturday. The grocery trip to prep was very expensive. I know that some of those bigger purchases, like the stevia sweetener, will last much longer than a week so this was an initial investment. The key will be to be flexible with things like meat and buy what is on sale, then meal plan around that. Overall I'd say the first week was a success. I lost 4.7 lbs! Sure glad to get rid of some water weight. Fasting till 11 or 12 every day has felt good, and it helps because then my meals are larger and I stay full longer. I really am not feeling a lot of hunger, and that makes dieting WAY easier. My biggest complaint is energy level during exercise. The only run that felt fine was my first one on Saturday morning when I wasn't keto yet, therefore still had plenty of glycogen a
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Keto...hmm...

Keto...hmmm.... So the other night I was listening to a podcast while I ran, and they were talking to a guy about ketogenic diets. At this point I'm bored with counting calories, I'm frustrated with the stalled weight, and I'm ready to try something new. The funny thing about the episode was that they never actually explained what keto is; just talked about how great it is. But I'm literate so I went to the google. Whaaaat? You can train your body to live off fat instead of carbs? I'm intrigued. I found plenty of descriptions of the science behind the diet. It's a major switch from mostly carbs to mostly fat. There were 2 calculators to figure out calories and macros for losing weight, and this is what I'm going to go with, which should put me at 800-1000 calorie deficit per day: total calories   protein   carbs   fat   1630                 114        45     110 At the end of the week I'll post my macros to see how well I fit that plan. I def
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1/19/18

My super awesome weight loss blog I am trying to lose a total of about 45 lbs. This journey started in August when I weighed myself after a week long vacation in California and realized I was as heavy as I had ever been! Time to fix that.  8/7/17 - I weighed 184.5 lbs with a fat % of 41.3. Heres are 2 'before' pics from the vacation. Over the past 5 months I have fought to lose 20 lbs. I will admit I am not great about sticking with a strict diet - there have been so many cheat days I can't believe I even lost the 20. But looking back I see that overall I've averaged 1 lb per week. My goal has always been twice that - which explains why I am succeeding albeit slowly; The days I stick with it I'm able to maintain a 1000 calorie deficit and then probably break even on my many cheat days.  Here is what I know after 5 months: 1000 calorie deficit per day = 7000 calories down per week = 2 lb weight loss my scale is a lying whore ok maybe not but
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